California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Hale, BA322866, No. B217608, No. BA322633 (Cal. App. 2010):
Grand theft of an item taken during the commission of a robbery is a lesser necessarily included offense of the crime of robbery. (People v. Cole (1982) 31 Cal.3d 568, 582.) "'If the evidence supports the verdict as to a greater offense, the conviction of that offense is controlling, and the conviction of the lesser offense must be reversed.'" (Ibid.)
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